NPA resumes hunt for Red Army militants

"Japanese Red Army members are still on the run and they may live somewhere near you," the video warns, adding the "case is not over yet." The Japanese Red Army, a violent ultra-leftist group that had links with Palestinian militants, was formed in 1971 and took responsibility for several international attacks, including the takeover of the US Consulate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1975. The group is also blamed for a 1972 machine-gun and grenade assault on what was then known as Lod international airport in Israel. Kozo Okamoto, 74, is thought to be the sole surviving terrorist from the 1972 attack, in which he and two other Red Army terrorists opened fire in the airport passenger terminal, according to Israel. The attack killed 26 people, most of them Puerto Rican tourists on a diving trip. The video, produced by the police's public security department, was released on social media and is playing on big-screen billboards in downtown Tokyo.

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A man was giving his 16-year-old nephew a driving lesson on the afternoon of March 18, 1964, when the pair peered into a nearby dumping site in Hazleton, Pa., and saw what looked like a large doll, police said.

They soon realized it was the body of a little girl.

Police identified the child as 9-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella. She had been abducted that morning, then bound, gagged and raped before being strangled and left in the former coal-mining waste pit, police said.

Despite months of nonstop work, investigators at the time were unable to crack the case.

On Thursday, nearly six decades after state and local police began investigating, authorities announced they had solved the cold case by identifying the killer through DNA and genetic genealogy.

"This should instill in the families of victims across the state and across the country, a sense of hope," state police Cpl. Mark Baron, the lead investigator, said at a news conference on Thursday. "That no matter how long it may take, we, as law enforcement, will never give up in trying to find the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. So, God willing, in life or in death, you will be found."

With the help of a 20-year-old college student who moonlights as a genetic genealogist, law enforcement said they had determined the man responsible was James Paul Forte, who died in 1980 and would have been 22 when he killed Chiverella.

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